And I think the admin probably did this, and with good reason. If you don't use it, unicode posts could look garbled.

From the link above:

Why would I need UTF-8?

There are a few reasons you might need UTF-8:

If you want to support multiple languages that use different character sets on your forum. For instance, if you want to support both Russian and Turkish, you will need a character set that supports both. (Or any special font that requires UTF-8)

If the software integrating with SMF uses UTF-8. In some cases such an integration can require character sets to match.

If you need better search results or improved sorting. In some cases searching and sorting by the database can be improved by choosing UTF-8 as your character set.

As is filtering web bots. With stricter filtering, it might even filter out some normal guests.

Don't talked about politic and religion if you want to keep things civil; and so we have modify our conversations to do so; I can see how this has been imparted, basically due to certain moderators had a strong bias and ended up flexing their unfettered power to the determent of those that disagreed with them..... the problem is that there are always things we should re-consider: because what you think is right is not always as you thought.Free conversation should always be allowed if it is not vile or slanderous..... that would be the moderators job, rather than censoring the ears and eyes of the observer to certain subjects; unfortunately the religious section has been repressed on this forum for several years and has diminished the volume of guest and posters.I have to believe that if censorship was reverted and allow the unknowing to realize there are many subject the guest have not been allow to see it would end up ultimately increasing the volume of contributors eventually.

Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole ; He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee. - Job 5

My guess would be you. You run that Global Gulag site. It's primary purpose seems to be to trash Alex Jones. And you endorse Islamic terrorism. You used to be a moderator here, but I see that that's no longer the case. Since you were the first to post after this forum came back up, my guess would be that you had a hand in crashing it.

Hello darkness, my old friendI've come to talk with you againBecause a vision softly creepingLeft its seeds while I was sleepingAnd the vision that was planted in my brainStill remainsWithin the sound of silence

In restless dreams I walked aloneNarrow streets of cobblestone'Neath the halo of a streetlampI turned my collar to the cold and dampWhen my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon lightThat split the nightAnd touched the sound of silence

And in the naked light I sawTen thousand people, maybe morePeople talking without speakingPeople hearing without listeningPeople writing songs that voices never shareNo one dareDisturb the sound of silence

"Fools" said I, "You do not knowSilence like a cancer growsHear my words that I might teach youTake my arms that I might reach you"But my words like silent raindrops fellAnd echoed in the wells of silence

And the people bowed and prayedTo the neon god they madeAnd the sign flashed out its warningIn the words that it was formingAnd the sign said "The words of the prophetsAre written on the subway wallsAnd tenement hallsAnd whispered in the sounds of silence"

EG, if you're only here to complain, why don't you go back to your cathouse? I hear there's a crazy lady there waiting for you.

now all this is very undeserved ,,, so stop it . there is a utf problem and EG had nothing to do with it .

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Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole ; He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee. - Job 5

now all this is very undeserved ,,, so stop it . there is a utf problem and EG had nothing to do with it .

Indeed...seems like a limitation in the software. Or maybe bad settings.

But that's not what I was referring to. Most of EG's posts here are anti-Trump, anti-conservative, anti-Alex Jones (not just here but particularly on his forum as well). Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me like the only purpose he serves is to divide.

It seems pretty obvious that nobody at Infowars cares to fix the forum problem. Essentially, it's been shadowbanned from search engines. I almost wonder if this was done intentionally. There is a lot of good info here, maybe it's too real for Infowars?

It seems pretty obvious that nobody at Infowars cares to fix the forum problem. Essentially, it's been shadowbanned from search engines. I almost wonder if this was done intentionally. There is a lot of good info here, maybe it's too real for Infowars?

Infowars used to have the forum linked on its front page, and the link lead to an embedded page. When infowars decided to un-link the forum its web ranking naturally fell like a brick trying to swim.

Other things certainly did not help, like the SpamBots posts and a few other factors. During the siege of the spambots, what was needed was a software upgrade so that we could ask unique CAPTCHA questions - infowars ignored the forum, we had to wait years for the upgrade.

Like I said, lots of things happened that lowered the forum ranking. Another example was Mike Adams getting Infowars to start a rival social media site, that collapsed, but did a mega amount of damage to the forum.

Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole ; He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee. - Job 5

Infowars used to have the forum linked on its front page, and the link lead to an embedded page. When infowars decided to un-link the forum its web ranking naturally fell like a brick trying to swim.

Other things certainly did not help, like the SpamBots posts and a few other factors. During the siege of the spambots, what was needed was a software upgrade so that we could ask unique CAPTCHA questions - infowars ignored the forum, we had to wait years for the upgrade.

Like I said, lots of things happened that lowered the forum ranking. Another example was Mike Adams getting Infowars to start a rival social media site, that collapsed, but did a mega amount of damage to the forum.

I remember when articles linked to the forum. That was a much better system, if they integrated it, they could make an entire social network using Simple Machines Forum in fact with some mods.